Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes.
Abram L. Urban
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J.G. Holland
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Chinese Proverb
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
To warm their little loves the birds complain
Thomas Gray
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C.S. Lewis
A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
Chinese Proverbs
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
D.H. Lawrence
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.
John Burroughs
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
W.H. Hudson
To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries.
Anne Raver
The early bird gets the worm.
American Proverb
Spring would not be spring without bird songs.
Francis M. Chapman
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
I see all the birds are flown.
Charles I
By coming and going, a bird constructs its nest.
African Proverb
What is a racist birder? Someone who watches birds in the wild while forking into chickens’ bird carcasses at the dinner table.
Niemus, O Anna
Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.
Thalassa Cruso
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
Loire Hartwould
“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt
God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.
Turkish Proverb
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.
Oliver Holmes
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin
Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
John Milton
I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James Matthew Barrie
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)”
Aristophanes
I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer’s noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumn morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of Devotion or Poetry.
Burns, Robert
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.
Muhammed Ali
The swallow twitters about the eaves; Blithely she sings, and sweet and clear; Around her climb the woodbine leaves In a golden atmosphere.
Thaxter, Celia
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
William Shakespeare
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.”
ascribed to John Mason Neale
Lend me your song, ye Nightingales! O, pour The mazy-running soul of melody Into my varied verse.
James Thomson
The cook, that is the trumpet to the morn. Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat A wake the god of day.
William Shakespeare
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
Martial
I hate birds, I hate mice. Anything that moves quicker than I do.
Sheree Murphy
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds, I leave no tern unstoned.
Ogden Nash
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Dent
I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
William Shakespeare
The birds, great Nature’s happy commoners, that haunt in woods in meads; and flowery gardens, rifle the sweets and taste the choicest fruits.
Nicholas Rowe
Hear how the birds, on ev’ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Alexander Pope
Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
Frances Anne